The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-18
THE PROHIBITION QUESTION IN TIL.
SOUTH.


A very important discussion has arisen
between Bishop Galloway Of tho Methodist
Church. South. and Mr.. Jefferson Davis re-
speeding the question OF prohibition. The
Bishop is in favor Of prohibition. and Mr.. Davis
is opposed to 1t. The Bishop delivered q public
address upon the subject at Brookhaven. Miss.
In August. In which Mr. Davis conceived that
injustice had been done him, and he replies in
public letter Of the 7th inst, containing the
following noteworthy passages:
You have expressed sorrow because I an
swered the inquiry OF a friend for my opinion
on a political question and employ many kind
and complimentary expressions In regard to
me, but in view Of your persistence in unjusti-
fed assailment, your compliments soem like
the garlands with which In the olden time
sacrifcal offering was decorated. Now 1t is my
turn to grieve not for you personally but that
q dignitary Of the Methodist Church. South.
should have left the pulpit and Bible to mount
the political r?strum and plead the higher law
OF prohibitionism-the substitution OF force for
free will moral respons,6sy the Obligation
hs S Sbn hove se D ss sna ST
hidden union Of Church and State. my grief is
real and relates to both =, .h ,oo -, wv u,o
for the Constitution and the liberties 1t was
formed to SECURE remains as ardent In age as
The Methodist Church. South" has been to
me the object Of admiration and grateful al
iSo1E Of its ds to de de
zeal OF its underpaid ministers who have gone
along byyays to penetrate unfrreaue eT re-,
Pprophetis Vision p Bishop Marvin. Viii it Be
Ra &
This reply. 1t may be proper here to remark,
tbst %ScR d tba
partisan. Il Is untenabie to deny that the
es for its AIM Is to esct
pledged to enact, to govern the body polite
rs y9SS Il ahs aons Sn
to term penal statutes hedged about by OK
trSordtnary measures Of prsSention
published address vas: How sad that fSe
au Yss the sf ss e 3S
against which your attack was directed. must
my request that you would mark the passages
on which your strictures were founded There
Your Intelligence does not permit the suppo-
sition that you did not perceive the distinction
between personal inalienable rights which I
and privileges which GeSernment might re-:
fuse or grant as the public welfare should re:
your partisans. If they have followed Mrs.
frimrose's advice and kept their eyes about
sooa hsSs nTd h to ksfn
purpose, subject to such restrictions and con.
would be needless to say that under our policy
Of local option 1t may not be possible every
whore to obtain that license upon any terms
After more ,diligent search Of my letter
than you seemed to have given before attack;
the hypothetical reference to the wooden
horse" and that is all Of mine to which you
narrow limits and with sufficient majority to
assure that the measure rests on the consent
IN Local
d warning against lurking evil.
matters In issue. viii quote the terms OF the
amendment referred to. as follows:
Ts snr s and Of
and scientific purposes is hereby prohibited In the State
The Legislature was to enact necessary laws
at its first session after the adoption OF the
amendment; II It had been adopted. farper
sns 81 lis he had
an orchard: he was not to be allowed to man
%actare cider Of his apples or brandy Of his
articles. though, the product oi bis farm, for
comforts grown In = different latitude and not
to be produced ut his home.
mWlHmtznG everything save It's SPECIAL
hibitionist to the civilizing, harmonizinG
peace-securing. comfort giving, effects Of COM
fered with his particular ism. would he not
probably answer by irrelevant catchwords?
Wbs time when and LAVE pssd
II. as, already proposed there should DO Fed
your recollection of war and reconstruction
days should enable you 70 anticipate
and deputy marshRls making domiciliary
visits e insure insure, the the, obsSryance Of tho
portrayal. To me 1t seems the plain duty OF
every citizen who loves the liberty our sires be,
acquires dangerous proportions. hold II to
Sss OF ths Ss s 81 To- a. he
necessity Of social existence; to give adequate
perversion of the grant, Is the problem which
the wisdom OF nSos, ms but partially solved:
hence the maxim, Eternal vigilance is tho
There are surely better remedies for offences
against The Icae a,, and good order q society
constitutional government and community in
dependence rs would be federal legislation to
found reason and moral spasion such potent
factors that his good work was not Of q day.
psdke and others who hsSe ohed Se ane
perance societies. These and other causes
have so acted, upon public, opinion and social
habits as to give to tho prohibition movement
the possibilities \ now hns and could not have
Hn'yH i ' Mi hpa rSne i'' my no. trust
science. aided hy tho laws which have the
slurtivu ~ experience, to prevent tine lornlH-
ton oi habits Of iittcmper,nec, rather Lhaa Mt
the sacriilco OF personal liberty and moral re-
sponsibillty 10 undertake, by coercIye means,
the reformation Of the drunkards The former
may be practicable; the latter. BY such meth
DDS, y hopeless tI.-